The Fury said:
How much is those sales based on name and expectation? I'm on websites like this, I look and know what I expect from Final Fantasy and saw what they were doing with 15 and this and decided that even if the gameplays were good, they weren't what I wanted in a Final Fantasy game. 13 came out in 2009/2010, after 6 years you don't expect a lot of people to give in to hype of 15 and buy it regardless? People crave new entries in big game series and, currently, FF fans are being starved so I expect sales to be high. I'm excited for FF16 even though I was extremely disappointed with 13, didn't buy 15 or this game and I adore FF enough to have bought the HD versions of FFX, 12 and the recent FF8. I'm looking forward to FF16 and may well buy it on that alone, because of what I expect from a Final Fantasy game, as in a Final Fantasy game as that weirdly isn't being met with the 1 game they released in a decade (15). I'm likely to buy the next Tekken, I've bought every one since 2 and played 1. Even bought the bound-tastic mess that was Tag 2. Yet I had no interest in SF x Tekken because the gameplay wasn't Tekken's, it was SFs. I wnt to play a FF game that feels like FF, not KH but currently they seem to be scare to do that and sales of new FF are high because they are FF games. This is getting weird to talk about because no matter how much I talk about it I end up repeating myself (to you, my friends, everyone) because I don't like the idea that I, as a fan of FF, am not their target audience anymore. Kids wanting to play non-thinking button mashers and Battle Royales are, not the 30 year old with huge amounts of disposable income. :P |
Honestly, I don't see us getting an old-school JRPG with a mainline final fantasy budget again, or at least until one of the medium budget titles starts selling numbers that approach mainline Final Fantasy numbers.
Having said that, Persona is starting to get close in sales and recognition, so you never know. A classic Final Fantasy/JRPG resurgence could be on the cards.
